New signs guide visitors to Asbury attractions
Chamber installs maps, directional lettering at train station
Visitors to Asbury Park should now find it easier to navigate the city due to the new Chamber of Commerce-sponsored way-finding signage at the Transportation Center.
The Chamber of Commerce installed the way-finding lettering and signage in the transportation center to enable people coming off the train to locate the tunnel leading to the downtown and the beachfront more easily.
Train passengers coming from the north use the tunnel when they disembark and need to pass under the tracks to the east side of the train station.
The chamber also plans to build a kiosk there in which they will place maps to the city, said Jackie Pappas, executive director of the Chamber of Commerce. The signage and map program will bear no cost to the city.
The first proposal included directions to the boardwalk and the downtown, including the time it takes to walk to each. Mayor Ed Johnson suggested the signage include other parts of town, as well.
“There are other places here in Asbury Park besides the downtown and boardwalk where we want to direct our visitors,” Johnson said. “We have a Main Street business district, Latin restaurants, the Springwood Avenue Senior Center … My preference would be to expend this and direct people to several destinations.”
The project can “absolutely be amended to include all business districts,” Pappas said. “We can make use of as much space as you’d allow us.”
The chamber is moving forward on the project and will keep the city posted on their progress, Pappas said.
(Photo by Hannah Walker)
